Fantasia

What began as a conversation between Walt Disney and conductor, Leopold Stokowski, became one of the most experimental pieces of animation of its time. Drawing inspiration from nine pieces of striking classical music, animators created a film with everything from dancing hippos and mushrooms, to frolicking centaurs and faeries and finally one mischievous mouse trying out a little magic--all of which is accompanied only by music.

When it was released in 1940, Fantasia was considered a box-office bust--"Disney's great folly"--but since then it has found a new life and fans in its re-releases.

Also, under the 'we kid you not' trivia classification, Fantasia was edited for racist imagery before its VHS/DVD release. These Nubian centaurettes that polished the hooves of the beautiful (ahem... white) centaurettes have been removed and all but forgotten in the decades since its initial release.